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There have been a few attempts over the years to blur the line between the flexibility that touch control provides and the tactile feedback and velocity sensitivity that musicians need. But many designs never made it off the drawing board, or were halted by major manufacturers before they got the chance to get going.
Now Keith McMillen, who brought us the SoftStep foot controller is back with another take on hybrid touch and tactile control with the QuNeo. Based around a colourful slab of sliders, pads and switches, the video above shows off its capabilities - especially for drums and percussion, where each pad offers enormous amounts of creative control and triggering options.
Check out the official specs below. The QuNeo is a Kickstarter project: Keith is currently seeking a total of $15,000 to get it off the ground.
(Via Create Digital Music)
Keith McMillen QuNeo specs
Tactile Pads, Sliders, Rotary Sensors and Switches
Each of the 27 pads, sliders and rotary sensors are pressure, velocity, and location sensitive. Even the 17 switches respond to how hard you press.
LED Light Feedback
A remarkable lumination scheme combines variably diffusive elastomers with 251 multi-color LEDs providing visual feedback that is immediately responsive and delightfully informative. Man and machine are coupled through light, feel and sound.
Trigger Pads
16 square pads provide 127 levels of Velocity response. And X-Y location. And continuous pressure. For each pad. Times sixteen.
Rotary Surfaces
2 rotary surfaces allow you to scrub, trigger, stretch, pinch and play phrases and sound files, manipulate continuous controllers and more . Each rotary sensor measures angle, pressure and distance from the center.
Multi-touch Sliders
9 touch sensitive sliders can be mapped to fader and effects controls. LEDs within each slider act as VU meters or remind you where you were. Multi-touch lets you select a length between two fingers to set stereo locations or filter resonances. Tapping a slider can mute or toggle any track or function.
The switches are located in smart groupings to select samples, fader banks, and transport controls. Each of the switches can scan up and down through files at speeds variable with your touch. Great for quickly locating that perfect fill or telling your looper you really meant it.
The Size of an iPad.
QuNeo is the size of an iPad and can fit in iPad accessories such as mic clips, stands and more.
Class Compliant and Open Source Development Kit
QuNeo works with USB, MIDI or OSC and will communicate with your favorite music software environments right out of the box. More advanced users and programmers can use thedevelopment kit and API to create their own code to respond to QuNeo's sensor data. Hack away to control your world in ways never before possible!
To get this project off the ground, Keith McMillen Instruments really needs your support, so head over to kickstarter to find out about how you can help raise funds for tooling and production to make QuNeo available ASAP


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Welcome to Lords-prayer-words.com ... an extensive resource of traditional and contemporary Christian prayers.
Central to this site is The Lord's Prayer, as this is where Jesus, the great master and Lord of all, teaches us how to pray.
Here you can discover many versions and translations of this famous prayer, as well as commentaries and interpretations on the "Our Father" by several classic biblical scholars and theologians. The site is also packed with other free resources on prayer - with videos to meditate on and several hundred prayers on topics such as healing, strength, prayers for children and for various times and occasions.
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your Kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom,
the power and the glory are yours.
Now and for ever.
(New English Version - adopted by the Church of England in 1977)
A short inspiring reading of this famous prayer:-
This section features the writings of three famous biblical theologians (Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke and Albert Barnes).
The Lord's prayer opens with addressing God as "Father who art in Heaven". There are then seven petitions. The first requests are connected with the worship of God ("Hallowed be thy name") and His ways. The next four concern the needs of man - his physical ("Give us today our daily bread"), mental (with temptation) spiritual (against evil) and relational needs (forgiveness). The prayer then concludes with a doxology.
www.lords-prayer-words.com is rooted in traditional Christianity, and upholds the Nicene Creed as it's statement of faith. The content of this site seeks to reflect the writings of the various streams and denominations that exist within the present day Christian faith and to do so in a non-partisan way.
In this section of the website, we explore the Lord's prayer message and application through a number of well known biblical scholars and writers. The study by John Wesley considers that the prayer may be broken down into three sections - it contains a preface ("Our Father"), petitions ("Give us this day" etc), and a conclusion (the doxology).
In the notes from Charles Spurgeon's sermon on the Lord's prayer, he considers that this text is a model for prayer, rather than something to be recited word for word. For example, when considering our sins, time needs to be taken to cite our wrongdoings and name them. Spurgeon goes on to observe that the prayer is "Our Father" - there is a double relationship in the text, firstly with God as Father, and secondly with our brothers and sisters (the prayer is not "My Father"). He asks us to think about the wider meaning of this - that the poor, the outcast etc are all our brothers.
The basis for the second sermon by Charles Spurgeon is Matthew 6:10 - "Your will be done on earth as in heaven". Here he considers the will of God, that it was originally perfectly done (in Eden), and in the future will be. In the meantime, as we pray this prayer, we are to commit ourselves to doing the will of God on earth.
In this section you will also find an interpretation of the Lord's prayer by Alexander MacLaren. If you need some ideas for studying this prayer in your Bible group, then there is also an excellent contribution by Phil Harper. Here you'll find some thoughts on what motivates us when we pray, and how we might seek to do the will of God as a community together.
www.lords-prayer-words.com began as a small project in 2007 with the aim of developing an online resource for people seeking to find out more about the Lord's Prayer. Initially this covered popular versions of the prayer and classic commentaries by the likes of Matthew Henry and Adam Clarke. The site was later added to by an extensive list of versions in different languages, (such as Russian and even Chinese!) and other resources, such as popular adaption's of the Lord's Prayer in music and song.
The website has since grown to become a wider resource about prayer, and seeks to encompass the rich heritage of the Christian faith, from the prayer life of the ancient Celts to modern day writings of the contemporary Church, and from across the varied traditions that exist within it, such as the Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist church denominations The site now covers many famous prayers, such as the "Serenity Prayer" and "The Lord is my Shepherd", as well as a section on how to pray to God and various prayer topics (for example, prayer for children, health and healing, work and family life). This site now also has a dedicated page for posting your own prayers, for whatever situation you are currently facing - such as prayer for a new job, or financial or health concerns etc. You can visit this page by clicking here.
Are you currently seeking God's direction in life? If so you may find the following short film helpful. Featuring a modern prayer for God's guidance with uplifting images and music:-
Take a moment to hear from God...
here are links to some wonderfully inspired prayers to aid your journey


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Jack Balkin: jackbalkin at yahoo.com Bruce Ackerman bruce.ackerman at yale.edu Ian Ayres ian.ayres at yale.edu Corey Brettschneider corey_brettschneider at brown.edu Mary Dudziak mary.l.dudziak at emory.edu Joey Fishkin joey.fishkin at gmail.com Heather Gerken heather.gerken at yale.edu Abbe Gluck abbe.gluck at yale.edu Mark Graber mgraber at law.umaryland.edu Stephen Griffin sgriffin at tulane.edu Jonathan Hafetz jonathan.hafetz at shu.edu Jeremy Kessler jkessler at law.columbia.edu Andrew Koppelman akoppelman at law.northwestern.edu Marty Lederman msl46 at law.georgetown.edu Sanford Levinson slevinson at law.utexas.edu David Luban david.luban at gmail.com Gerard Magliocca gmaglioc at iupui.edu Jason Mazzone mazzonej at illinois.edu Linda McClain lmcclain at bu.edu John Mikhail mikhail at law.georgetown.edu Frank Pasquale pasquale.frank at gmail.com Nate Persily npersily at gmail.com Michael Stokes Paulsen michaelstokespaulsen at gmail.com Deborah Pearlstein dpearlst at yu.edu Rick Pildes rick.pildes at nyu.edu David Pozen dpozen at law.columbia.edu Richard Primus raprimus at umich.edu K. Sabeel Rahmansabeel.rahman at brooklaw.edu Alice Ristroph alice.ristroph at shu.edu Neil Siegel siegel at law.duke.edu David Super david.super at law.georgetown.edu Brian Tamanaha btamanaha at wulaw.wustl.edu Nelson Tebbe nelson.tebbe at brooklaw.edu Mark Tushnet mtushnet at law.harvard.edu Adam Winkler winkler at ucla.edu Compendium of posts on Hobby Lobby and related cases The Anti-Torture Memos: Balkinization Posts on Torture, Interrogation, Detention, War Powers, and OLC The Anti-Torture Memos (arranged by topic) Recent Posts The Amended Hate Crimes Act Would Be Constitutional
Thursday, May 03, 2007
The Amended Hate Crimes Act Would Be Constitutional Marty Lederman
The House today passed the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007. The Bush Administration has threatened a veto if the Senate also passes it.
it is at all problematic that as applied that jurisdictional element would cause crimes with the same motivation and effect but differing in having some immaterial relation to interstate commerce to be treated divergently. i can see a justification for travel across state lines because that is utilizing a federally guaranteed privilege but i dont know how far that should go, and judging the materiality of the interstate commerce connection to the crime strikes me as difficult.
Could you tell us what the jurisdictional element means in practice? What kind of situations trigger it and don't trigger it?
The idea that this president has suddenly become a defender of federalism is laughable -- "NCLB" or "Gonzales v. Raich," anyone?
The Statement of Administration Policy notwithstanding, the only two words Bush has a problem with in HR 1592 are "sexual orientation."
[T]he only two words Bush has a problem with in HR 1592 are "sexual orientation." To paraphrase another wag, I was guessing that the first two words there that Dubya had a problem with were "and" and "the".
To clear up my prior comment (as much as possible):
I think Dubya's threat to veto stems more from a childish impulse to give the middle=finger salute to what he perceives as his tormentors, rather than any principled understanding of what he's threatening to veto. He may in fact understand "and" and "the". It simply played no part in his decision. Cheers,
As ever, I marvel at how little what's 'constitutional' has to do with what the Constitution actually says. You'll search in vain to find any references to '"badges," "incidents" and "relics" of slavery' in the 13th amendment. And to make a federal crime out of beating somebody up in 2007 under the pretext that it's necessary to prevent a return of slavery is a stretch the finest latex, let alone the Constitution, could never survive.
Let the states do this, if it's really necessary. Not everything that's good has to be done by the federal government.
Let the states do this, if it's really necessary. Been there, done that. Check out the '40s and '50s.... I'd note that the "state's rights" mantra of the RWers is rather selective (as well as suspect in pedigree); the RWers want nothing more than to tell progressive states like Oregon and California what to do, when it comes to matters of real morality, as opposed to bigotry and racial discrimination. Cheers,
I don't see the 13th amendment argument. Wouldn't the statute have to be limited to crimes against BLACK people for that argument to fly? In practice, these types of statutes end up being applied against black perpetrators more than they are applied to crimes involving black victims.
You'll search in vain to find any references to '"badges," "incidents" and "relics" of slavery' in the 13th amendment.
Sure, but the "badges and incidents" phrase goes back to the time of the Amendment itself. Surely any originalist would consider that when interpreting Congressional authority.
Arne, quite aside from the fact that I purely despise the sort of sophistry necessary to pretend that laws like this are constitutional, and think it is highly corrosive to the legitimacy of the legal system, it seems clear that federal hate crime laws exist specifically to enable the sort of second bite at the apple that the constitutional prohibition against double jepardy exists to prevent.
The argument that it's constitutional is specious, and it's a bad law, motivated by, ultimately, a desire to circumvent a basic constitutional protection. I see no redeeming aspects to it at all.
The article refers to 'violent crimes' in describing the hate crimes statutes, but the law states a hate crime can arise from a person who "by force or threat of force willfully injures, intimidates or interferes with, or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with" a protected class.
Doesn't this language suggest an act not necessarily be violent to be considered a hate crime?
Marty, is the reason that it's not based on Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment simply a recognition that there aren't five votes for a robust (and correct) reading of Section 5 these days? Perhaps there is an interstate commerce argument, but it surely what Marshall meant by "pretext" in McCulloch. I presume the IC argument "works" only because the Court in Darby completely renounced pretextual analysis of what may well be described as "national police power" statutes.
Sandy: If I recall correctly, the reason no one invoked section 5 was because the statute deals with private discrimination -- and Morrison, alas, (wrongly) revivified the holdings of Harris and the Civil Rights Cases to the effect that section 5 can't be used with respect to private discrimination (even where, as in Morrison, the states themselves did not adequately address such private discrimination).
So, yes, it's because not only aren't there five votes going forward for a robust (and correct) reading of Section 5; but there also weren't five votes in a recent, binding holding of the Court. (By contrast, cases such as Griffin and Jones do support the reliance on section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment, even though it is well-nigh inconceivable that the current Court would decide those cases the same way today as a matter of first impression. The contrast does nicely demonstrate, however, the important tension between the Court's section 2 jurisprudence (established largely in the Warren Court) and its current, much stingier reading of section 5.)
The Supreme Court's Morrison decision got the federalism-based limits on Congress's power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment exactly right, in light of the Fourteenth Amendment's legislative history.
And under Morrison you can't have a general federal hate crimes law, whether it's gender (as in Morrison), religion, sexual orientation, etc. That makes part of section (a)(1) unconstitutional. Another part of (a)(1) -- that dealing with race as opposed to other characteristics -- may be OK under Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (1968). But as the Morrison district court observed, cases like Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. involve racial discrimination, and even private racial discrimination can often be banned by Congress under the Thirteenth Amendment. See Brzonkala v. Virginia Polytechnic Institute. But as the Morrison district court observed, with the exception of slavery, the Thirteenth Amendment only applies to racial discrimination, not other kinds of discrimination, like gender or sexual orientation discrimination. Trying to ban other forms of discrimination under the Thirteenth Amendment is a loser, as the Justice Department recognized from its litigation strategy in Morrison. Adding in a jurisdictional element can allow Congress to reach some gender or sexual-orientation-based hate crimes, but the jurisdictional element in section (a)(2) doesn't meaningfully limit the reach of the statute. As Chief Judge Becker once observed, jurisdictional elements that do nothing to limit the reach of a statute are meaningless and cannot be used to reject a commerce-clause challenge to the statute. The Supreme Court suggested as much in its decision narrowing the reach of the arson statute in Jones v. United States.
We address Hanw's arguments in our 2000 DOJ Letter.
Hans, subsection (a)(1) -- the Thirteenth Amendment provision -- only reaches racial discrimination or other forms of discrimination based on characteristics that were viewed as "race" at the enactment of the Thirteenth Amendment. In other words, it only includes those forms of discrimination that are covered under 42 USC 1981 and 1982. For gender-, sexual-orientation- and disability-based discrimination (and religion-based discrimination not equivalent to race discrimination), the government would have to prove a connection to commerce as described in subsection 249(a)(2).
Section (a)(1) includes not only race, but also other categories, like religion, without even any nexus to interstate commerce. That is constitutionally very problematic.
Religion-based hate crimes can't be banned under the Thirteenth Amendment, unlike race. Of course, sometimes the line between race and religion is blurry, as in the case of anti-semitism. Anti-semitic hate crimes can be banned under Thirteenth Amendment legislation because anti-semitism targets Jews as a race, not just as a religion, in the eyes of the framers of the Thirteenth Amendment, who thought (contrary to prevailing views today) that Jews were a distinct race. See the Supreme Court's Shaare Tefila decision, construing anti-semitism to fall under the 42 USC 1981 and 1982 provisions which ban on racial discrimination. (Moreover, Hitler's hatred of Jews certainly was racist in nature; even Christian Jews were targeted by him for murder). But that is not true for other religions. Antipathy to Scientology or Catholicism is not motivated by any racial animus, and can't be reached through the Thirteenth Amendment, which generally reaches only racial discrimination.
I'd point out that the Thirteenth Amendment does not in fact refer to race at all. It therefore invites us to reflect on what constitutes "slavery" or "involuntary servitude." As Akhil Reed Amar and Daniel Widawsky argued in a typically audacious article, "A Thirteenth Amendment Response to DeShaney," 105 Harv. L. Rev. 1359 (1992), one could certainly analogize certain kinds of "family tyranny," whether over children, as in DeShaney, or spouses, as an equivalent to "slavery." To put it mildly, there is no reason to believe that there are five votes for the Amar-Widawsky analysis, but that discredits the Court more than it does Amar and Widawsky, just as is the case with the disgraceful citation of post-Reconstruction cases to eviscerate the promise of Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
For the record, I don't know if Amar would extend the analysis in that article to "hate crimes" based on sexual orientation, though I'm confident he'd do so under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Hans: Please go and read our 2000 letter. We recognized and addressed precisely the issue you raise. Here's what we wrote:
The question whether Congress may prohibit violence against persons because of their actual or perceived religion or national origin is more complex, but there is a substantial basis to conclude that the 13th amendment grants Congress that authority, at a minimum, with respect to some religions and national origins. In Saint Francis College v. al-Khazraii, 481 U.S. 604, 613 (1987), the Court held that the prohibition of discrimination in section 1981 extends to discrimination against Arabs, as Congress intended to protect "identifiable classes of persons who are subjected to intentional discrimination solely because of their ancestry or ethnic characteristics." Similarly, the Court in Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb, 481 U.S. 615, 617–18 (1987), held that Jews can state a claim under 42 U.S.C. 1982, another Reconstruction-era antidiscrimination statute enacted pursuant to, and contemporaneously with, the 13th amendment. In construing the reach of these two Reconstruction-era statutes, the Supreme Court found that Congress intended those statutes to extend to groups like "Arabs" and "Jews" because those groups "were among the peoples [at the time the statutes were adopted] considered to be distinct races." Id; see also Saint Francis College, 481 U.S. at 610–13. We thus believe that Congress would have authority under the 13th amendment to extend the prohibitions of proposed section 249(a)(1) to violence that is based on a victim's religion or national origin, at least to the extent the violence is directed at members of those religions or national origins that would have been considered races at the time of the adoption of the 13th amendment. [Footnote: In light of the Court's construction of sections 1981 and 1982 in Shaare Tefila Congregation and St. Francis College, it would be consistent for the Court so to construe this legislation, especially with sufficient guidance from Congress.]
Arne, quite aside from the fact that I purely despise the sort of sophistry necessary to pretend that laws like this are constitutional, and think it is highly corrosive to the legitimacy of the legal system, it seems clear that federal hate crime laws exist specifically to enable the sort of second bite at the apple that the constitutional prohibition against double jepardy exists to prevent. The argument that it's constitutional is specious, and it's a bad law, motivated by, ultimately, a desire to circumvent a basic constitutional protection. I see no redeeming aspects to it at all. When I'm interested in your definition of "sophistry" and your opinion of what is specious, I'll send you an e-mail. If we want to look at more conventional definitions of sophistry, we might examine your specious claim that "hate crime" laws constitute a "second bite at the apple"; something that would be banned under the prohibition against double jeopardy. But there's really no point. Cheers,
Marty --
Any notion of what it really means, in practice, for a federal prosecutor to prove that a particular crime "affects" interstate commerce in the broad sense? What precisely needs to be shown to meet that element? And I have to say, the asserted motivation to prevent the badges of "slavery" -- in 2007 -- is simply not believable. I wonder if we wouldn't be better off with a "Congress can regulate anything" clause in the Constitution; we'd probably have pretty much the same set of federal laws as we do now, but the proponents of the laws wouldn't be forced to say absurd things in order to justify the constitutionality of the laws.
Sorry guys but the entire concept of a "hate crime" in bogus. Where do you get off by Criminalizing a "motive" rather than an "action".
So if someone shoots my daughter, its less of a crime than them shooting the gay dude next door - is this your premise? Well, shooting someone for their car is just as nonsensical. But are you going to punish them more cause its a stupid idea. The only people that the "motive" is relevant to is the police when looking for a suspect. After that the crime is the crime. I thought both of the dudes in the Matthew Shepherd incident got life sentences for murder. What is it you are going to add to this? The new text in this could end up being spread to the level of the EU's new terrible "hate" crime nonsense. You have people in jail now for 3 years cause they used the word "immigrant" in a disparaging way. They were protesting high immigration...and are now in jail for "offending" the poor illegals. That is the dangerous part. Not that someone is going to get away with killing someone. Utter nonsense.
I put aside the religious (though Arabs/Jews raise different issues than Methodists) and racial aspects of the law. Hans raises the point, one that honestly, the citation of the opinion doesn't fully answer.
The controversy arises from the sexual orientation aspects. Since I think the matter intimately connected to sex/gender, these two groups can be connected. Anyway, a look at the actual law ... as compared to some of the discussion of it ... suggests the possibly narrow nature of the matter. As one person noted, what exactly is a seminal case where "interstate commerce" would arise in this context? Acts arising from employment? On trains? A glance at the law suggests Congress might want to interpret that broadly. This just won't work ... the fact some might dislike the ruling (I was no fan of DeShaney either) notwithstanding ... under Morrison. The law also suggests only a very narrow range of cases (e.g., see the reference to if a state opposes involvement) will be touched. Honestly, since this nuances of the matter is confusing, this seems a worthwhile issue for further analysis -- the race/rel. issue focused upon here is in effect the easy part. Overall, some commentary suggests this is just a hate crime bill. It's not. It's more narrow. On that point, I do wonder -- what is the value of a federal law of this sort? I assume some think of heinous acts like Matthew Shephard when this sort of thing arises. I honestly see that as a state issue primarily. If state inaction (DeShaney) arises or some other state connection, or federal right (employment regulation is fitting here, given the interstate commerce hook), fine. But, overall "Could you tell us what the jurisdictional element means in practice? What kind of situations trigger it and don't trigger it?" holds true.
"we might examine your specious claim that "hate crime" laws constitute a "second bite at the apple";"
My claim was specifically with regards to federal hate crime legislation. And it's not a particularly absurd claim. See, for instance, Nat Hentoff on the subject. As you're well aware, the courts have basicly gutted the double jeopardy clause by allowing state and federal prosecutions of the same act. ANY time you enact a federal law which covers an act already illegal at the state level you're generating an oportunity for double jeopardy violations. I am, without exception, opposed to federal laws against acts which are already crimes under state law. If you want a law to deal with biased decisions not to prosecute on the state level, go after the prosecutors. That much I think you quite easily could justify under the 14th amendment.
A look at the White House statement leads me to add a few words.
"The Administration favors strong criminal penalties for violent crime, including crime based on personal characteristics, such as race, color, religion, or national origin." Hmm. What is left out here? I note that the statement references the core pt of this post only briefly (see end of statement). It also suggests a policy concern that there is no need for such legislation. And, a generalized concern [though Wisconsin v. Mitchell seems to make it not one constitutionally bound under current precedent, cf. The Bank Veto of Andy Jackson] of only have certain categories as protected hate crimes (Andrew Sullivan is also against the policy, but not singling out gays for no protection, which is in effect inequitable the other way). Anyway, "ANY time you enact a federal law which covers an act already illegal at the state level you're generating an oportunity for double jeopardy violations." Justice McLean in the 19th Century had this concer, but there are SOME crimes that have federal interests at heart where a federal law makes sense, if not a federal prosecution once a state one was adequately carried out. I assume a state can pass a law banning beating up postal employees in state parks etc. A fed law can be passed covering the same category as well. Sometimes both sovereigns have interlocking interests.
"I assume a state can pass a law banning beating up postal employees in state parks etc. A fed law can be passed covering the same category as well."
Why? Are postal employees better than the rest of us? State justice isn't good enough for them? I really don't understand this conviction that you don't take something seriously unless you're willing to pass a federal law against it. No, there are matters that are inherently federal. Beating somebody on the head with a tire iron, unless it occurs on federal property, or specifically to obstruct a legitimate federal responsiblity, (Attacking a postal employee to obstruct the mail might well qualify as a federal matter.) is not among them.
The federal government has an interest in protecting its workers. Is this an implication they are "better" than us? [Your desire to treat beating up the President with the same penalty as the rest of us is duly noted btw.] Or, that we only take things seriously when there is a crime against it?
But, fine. I don't see why a state cannot pass a law against beating up postal employees on their route. States have an interest in not having their citizens worrying about watching violence on public throughways, esp. in residential areas where kids and others more at risk (hint: not "better") people reside. [WHY the person attacks the postal employee doesn't seem to matter here given the interest at hand.] The federal gov't also has an interest in such cases. Each sovereign having separate interests need not wait until the other decides to prosecute to protect their interests. In fact, this would cause federalism problems. Double jeopardy might arise if both gov'ts attack the same act separately. So, my proposal is one bite at the apple.
The federal government has plenty of "interests". A government of enumerated powers, operating under the rule of law, requires a bit more than being interested in a topic to justify legislating on it. Like maybe an actual grant of authority in the area?
This debate about postal workers is interesting because it was one of the first examples raised in defense of "inherent powers". If we take the text of the Constitution literally, Congress has no power to pass any criminal law whatsoever, except for treason (by inference) and "piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations".
Notwithstanding, the US has had a criminal code since the very beginning. It seems fairly obvious, for example, that if Congress has sole power to coin money (which it does), it must be able to punish counterfeiting. If it has power to establish a post office and post roads, it must have power to punish crimes committed which interfere with those powers. That, at least, has been the argument since Day 1 and even the most adamant proponents of limited powers (e.g., Jefferson) never tried to repeal those criminal statutes.
Brett himself noted "Attacking a postal employee to obstruct the mail might well qualify as a federal matter."
So, I gave a hypo doing just that to reaffirm my point. He avoided it to attack my use of "federal interest." This avoiding a possible area of agreement to continue snarky disagreement is a fairly usual technique. As to 'federal interest,' I replied to the comment about something being "inherently federal." Yes, I thought the fact it was attached to a federal power was implied. My bad. See MF, but yes, I think it is "necessary and proper" in various cases to pass laws that protect federal employees. It is "legitimate." This ends my part in this tedious business.
Mark, you forgot that Congress can enact laws on the same basis as a state, for federal land.
Joe, and this is not a law concerning federal employees, or interference with the post office, or anything the Constitution grants the federal government an "interest" in. Prohibiting assault of ordinary citizens is the prototypically state matter. Which the federal government legislates on for no other reason than to have the opportunity to commit double jeopardy. Bad law, for a bad motive.
Mark, you forgot that Congress can enact laws on the same basis as a state, for federal land.
I didn't forget that, I just considered it a separate issue. For example, counterfeiters may, and most likely do, operate exclusively on state land, yet the feds surely have the power to criminalize that conduct. Joe, and this is not a law concerning federal employees, or interference with the post office, or anything the Constitution grants the federal government an "interest" in. Except that Congress tied this crime to "interstate commerce", something it does have an "interest" in. Now, I understand that you believe the courts have expanded that power too far, so let's take an example that may be easier. Do you believe that Congress has power to prevent such assaults on airplanes (interstate, of course)? How about a ferry boat from NJ to NY? If you do agree with these examples, then your real dispute is with the extent of commerce clause power, not with the crime itself.
Sorry guys but the entire concept of a "hate crime" in bogus. Where do you get off by Criminalizing a "motive" rather than an "action". "Motive" is an essential element of a number of crimes ["assault with intent to kill", for enstance]. It's the essence of mens rea. Cheers,
[Arne]: "we might examine your specious claim that "hate crime" laws constitute a "second bite at the apple";" My claim was specifically with regards to federal hate crime legislation. And it's not a particularly absurd claim. See, for instance, Nat Hentoff on the subject. There are various crimes that are both illegal under federal and state law, and for which one may be tried under both for the same acts without violating the "double jeopardy" prohibition. Cheers,
Public Advocate demonstrates in Washington, DC, protesting the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Protection Act (H.R. 1592), which would grant special rights to homosexuals. This law would add sexual orientation to federal hate crimes statutes.
Watch Teletubby and Moses get arrested at the Capitol while angry bystanders demand the release of the purple teletubby, the "moral fiber of America." See Public Advocate activists hit the streets with this street theater demonstrating against Ted Kennedy's Thought Control Bill to give homosexuals special privileges: http://publicadvocateusa.org/
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Drexel University's Frank Lee, PhD, has officially outdone himself. The man behind this spring's giant game of Tetris –played on the north and south sides of Brandywine Realty Trust's Cira Centre skyscraper– replaced his own name in the Guinness World Records ledger as the creator of the world's "largest architectural videogame display."
Lee, an associate professor in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and founder of Drexel's Entrepreneurial Game Studio, initially set the record last year, when he turned one of Cira Centre's 29-story LED arrays into a game of Pong as part of Philly Tech Week. This time around, he used the LEDs on both the north and south sides of the edifice –essentially doubling the size of the display to an astounding 119,600 square feet- to create a massive Tetris game.
To create the display, Lee's team employed 460 LEDs on each side of the building to form a 20-by-23-pixel screen for the game. Players were stationed at Eakins Oval in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and on Drexel's campus, nearly two miles away, to take advantage of the two-sided game play.
"I'm delighted that we were able to earn this recognition once again," Lee said. "More so than breaking a record, my goal with this project was to unite the people of the city of Philadelphia around a public art installation – to give them a shared experience and inspire them to think about how a building can be more than just a building and, by extension, how the city can be much more than just a bunch of buildings and people sharing the same space. I thank Brandywine Realty Trust, Technical.ly Philly and our other partners for sharing the vision and making this happen."
As part of Philly Tech Week's opening event in April, more than 2,500 people watched as competitors took the controls to play the Tetris game, head-to-head, on opposite sides of the building. Among the players was Henk Rogers, managing director, The Tetris Company, who joined Lee for a collaborative game in honor of the 30th anniversary of the creation of Tetris.
"Watching Tetris come to life on the Cira Centre was a dream come true for me and hundreds of millions of Tetris players around the world," said Rogers, "Congratulations to Frank and his team for pulling off this incredible – and now world record-setting – event. It was an amazing experience to kick off our 30th anniversary!"
Lee recruited undergraduate computer science student Colan Biemer and College of Computing & Informatics staff member Gaylord Holder to achieve the feat, which required coding the giant game and using the building's lighting control software to link it to the LEDs.
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President Obama recently noted that "[i]f you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own." But the President's argument did not stop with the assertion that economic success fundamentally requires paying customers. Instead, the President essentially argued that the successful person somehow "owes" the government for the fact that he or she makes a good living.
For most businesses in America, making money is a fairly simple concept even if it is challenging to execute. In short, the business makes a product or provides a service that customers value more than the money in their pockets. As a result, the business profits and the customer receives something he or she values. But where is the government in that exchange?
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Few will deny the utility of quality transportation infrastructure or the reach of the Internet, but the government did not generate the wealth that enabled those projects. While the Field of Dreams sentiment "if you build it, they will come" makes for great theater, it falls flat when applied to government action. A government's resources simply do not exist outside the economy it taxes.
Unfortunately, the current revenue base of almost $2.5 trillion is not nearly enough grist for the Obama Administration's political mill. In fact, the President's most recent "budget" calls for an additional $1.3 trillion in debt. Stating that the wealthy need to pay a "little more" in order to trim federal deficits is such a serious understatement that it borders on falsehood.
In 2009, the last year for complete federal tax data, tax returns with an adjusted gross income of more than $200,000 incurred a total tax liability of almost $450 billion. Assuming that the President could increase the tax liability for these "wealthy" individuals by ten percent, the net gain to the federal government would be less than $50 billion, barely a drop in the bucket against what Washington is spending. In truth, President Obama would need to tax those with returns in excess of $200,000 at almost 50 percent of their total taxable income to trim even 25 percent of President Obama's $1.4 trillion deficit in 2009.
It is little more than political theater to argue that there are some services and legitimate functions of government that most Americans have little trouble lending their consent or their tax dollars. The hard truth is that a government comprising almost 25 percent of America's GDP needs major reforms... not just a little more cash.
Unfortunately, the President's mantra reflects the powerful siren call of the collectivist rather than support of the time-tested free marketplace. The warm notion that "we are all in this together" conveniently leaves off the rest of the sentiment ..."as long as you agree with me." To paraphrase Austrian economist F.A. Hayek, the only thing worse than submitting to the uncertain outcomes and inequalities of a free market is submission to an equally uncontrollable and arbitrary power of other men. Americans can and must do better than simply give more control and send more money to Washington in an effort to solve the challenges facing the nation.
About the author: Cameron Smith is General Counsel and Policy Director for the Alabama Policy Institute, a non-partisan, non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the preservation of free markets, limited government and strong families, which are indispensable to a prosperous society.
This article was published by the Alabama Policy Institute.
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text: The 10-90 model (a show shoots ten episodes without a pilot and if it meets a ratings threshold, it instantly gets 90 more), which was introduced with Tyler Perry's House of Payne, became all the rage after Charlie Sheen used it for Anger Management. George Lopez, Roseanne Barr, and the pairing of Martin Lawrence and Kelsey Grammer all have one in development. Up next is Kevin James. James, a multi-camera sitcom veteran, what with King of Queens running for over 200 episodes, hasn't tried his hand at TV since that show's finale in 2007. In the time since, James once appeared on a movie-star trajectory, after Paul Blart: Mall Cop blarted to a $146 million domestic gross. However, after the disappointing The Dilemma, Zookeeper, and Here Comes the Boom, TV is seeming like a better and better option. There's no concept yet, but a zoo cop who learns to wrestle to fund said zoo while his wife cheats on him sounds good to us.


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"The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse" is one of Aesop's Fables and tells the story of country bumpkin mouse who visits his urban-dwelling cousin for a taste of the luxurious life. The country mouse is at first captivated by the fine food of the city, but is thrown into panic and forced to run and hide after someone throws open the door while he and his cousin are eating. There are numerous retellings of the story, but the moral is that it's better to live with little in safety, than to live in abundance surrounded by danger.
This may be how many Japanese people feel after leaving their peaceful and secure life in the countryside for the city. Every year thousands of Japanese move to big cities like Tokyo and Osaka from outlying country areas, for work or for school, experiencing all kinds of culture shock as they adjust to new lives. Even moving from one big city to another is an adjustment, as the character of the people and the way things are done differs by region.
Naver Matome has put together the voices of people from different regions of Japan who experienced what the Country Mouse experienced: that the city life isn't always what it's cracked up to be.
See what surprised these Japanese "Country Mice" about the big city below:
Big city facilities
Movie theaters - "At the movies when you buy a ticket you reserve a seat. I never heard of that"
ATM machines – "I was amazed when the ATM machine processed a new bank book when I ran out of pages, on the spot. I thought I was going to have to go back during business hours!"
Big city kids
"I once saw an elementary school kids eating cup ramen as they walked down the street!"
"The Christmas decorations at my train station (in Tokyo) included a Christmas tree decorated with ornaments made by local elementary school kids with their hopes and dreams for the future written on them. Most of the kids already had a university picked out. 'I'd like to go to so and so university and…' Wow, that's a city kid for you."
"On a recent trip to Tokyo, I saw a kid in a stroller holding an iPhone. He took a look at my old model cell phone and I swear he was making fun of me. Tokyo kids!"
Big city adults
"I overheard the conversation of a middle-aged couple on the train. 'Oh no, I left my wallet at the shop,' says the husband. Wife: 'Not again!' Husband: 'I had about 50,000 yen in it. The person who picks it up certainly will be happy!' And they continued to laugh about it loudly. – This is Tokyo."
"I saw a guy walking around barefoot when I went out the other day. I did a double take and checked to make sure I was actually in Tokyo. I also saw a guy cosplaying as Goku of Dragonball on the station platform, so I guess walking barefoot is nothing.
"I was standing around the other day and some guy wanted to talk to me, with something like 'Hey little sister talk to me' and I thought this could get complicated so I tried to put him off by making gorilla noises like 'auh!' I was shocked when he said 'auh auh auh?' right back. The adaptability of city guys. It made me shudder."
"I miss the country…"
"Karaoke is so expensive in the city. Back home, on a weekday afternoon it is only 50 yen a song (used to be 10 yen a song). Of course you have to buy a drink, but otherwise, you are allowed to bring your own food and drink so that you only end up paying 500 yen for a good time."
"If I fall asleep on the sofa here I wake up all cold. I miss the warmth of my apartment back home."
"I rode the Oimachi Line (in Tokyo) for the first time the other day. I had a lot of luggage and people were staring at me. If I was back home in Osaka an auntie would ask me 'What are you carrying in the box?' Makes me homesick for Osaka."
"I think about leaving…"
"I've thought a number of times about changing jobs and going back to the country. But it would feel like losing at life, so I can't do it."
"When people around me quit their jobs to go back 'home', it starts feeling lonely and I want to go home too. But right now I don't have the courage to let go of my current environment."
Technology. Why the Country Mouse stays:
"Back home there is no PC. Here I am on my third — no, fourth notebook PC. My life would be so inconvenient without my PCs."
"When I imagine going home, he first thing I would have to do is set up for my computer, or else I can't work!"
"Life in the country is too slow. Transmission is bad there so I like Osaka better. Think I'll stay here."
But wait. Softbank LTE is on its way.
Japanese mobile mobile carrier Softbank is starting a LTE service which will increase its transmission area by 90% in a month. Will that be enough to drive the City Mice back to the country in droves? We'll see.
I feel like the city I live in, Shizuoka, is "country", at least compared to Tokyo. But here in Shizuoka, our ATMs use the fancy technology mentioned above and all cinemas have reserved seating, so I guess that makes us big city — at least to some people. But any hard-core Tokyo or Osaka-ites would agree to Shizuoka's "country" status, so it all really depends on where your heart is.
Source: Matome.naver.jp
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The Holy Spirit is one and the same Who spake in the prophets and apostles, Who is the Spirit of God and of Christ; Whom, further, Scripture designates the Paraclete, and the Spirit of life and truth.
55. But no one will doubt that the Spirit is one, although very many have doubted whether God be one. For many heretics have said that the God of the Old Testament is one, and the God of the New Testament is another. But as the Father is one Who both spake of old, as we read, to the fathers by the prophets, and to us in the last days by His Son;850850 Heb. i. 1, 2. "and as the Son is one, Who according to the tenour of the Old Testament was offended by Adam,851851 Gen. iii. 17. seen by Abraham,852852 Gen. xviii. 22, 23. worshipped by Jacob;853853 Gen. xxviii. 17. so, too, the Holy Spirit is one, who energized in the prophets,854854 2 Pet. i. 21. was breathed upon the apostles,855855 S. John xx. 22. and was joined to the Father and the Son in the sacrament of baptism.856856 S. Matt. xxviii. 19. For David says of Him: "And take not Thy Holy Spirit from me."857857 Ps. li. [l.] 11. And in another place he said of Him: "Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit?"858858 Ps. cxxxix. [cxxxviii.] 7.
10156. That you may know that the Spirit of God is the same as the Holy Spirit, as we read also in the Apostle: "No one speaking in the Spirit of God says Anathema to Jesus and no one can say, Lord Jesus, but in the Holy Spirit,"859859 1 Cor. xii. 3. the Apostle calls Him the Spirit of God. He called Him also the Spirit of Christ, as you read: "But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you."860860 Rom. viii. 9. And farther on: "But if the Spirit of Him Who raised Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you."861861 Rom. viii. 11. The same is, then, the Spirit of God, Who is the Spirit of Christ.
57. The same is also the Spirit of Life, as the Apostle says: "For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath delivered me from the law of sin and death."862862 Rom. viii. 2.
58. Him, then, Whom the Apostle called the Spirit of Life, the Lord in the Gospel named the Paraclete, and the Spirit of Truth, as you find: "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter [Paraclete], that He may be with you for ever, even the Spirit of Truth, Whom this world cannot receive; because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him."863863 S. John xiv. 16, 17. You have, then, the Paraclete Spirit, called also the Spirit of Truth, and the invisible Spirit. How, then, do some think that the Son is visible in His Divine Nature, when the world cannot see even the Spirit?
59. Receive now the saying of the Lord, that the same is the Holy Spirit Who is the Spirit of Truth, for you read in the end of this book: "Receive the Holy Spirit."864864 S. John xx. 22. And Peter teaches that the same is the Holy Spirit Who is the Spirit of the Lord, when he says: "Ananias, why has it seemed good to thee to tempt and to lie to the Holy Spirit?"865865 Acts v. 3. And immediately after he says again to the wife of Ananias: "Why has it seemed good to you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?"866866 Acts v. 9. When he says "to you," he shows that he is speaking of the same Spirit of Whom he had spoken to Ananias. He Himself is, then, the Spirit of the Lord Who is the Holy Spirit.
60. And the Lord Himself made clear that the same Who is the Spirit of the Father is the Holy Spirit, when according to Matthew He said that we ought not to take thought in persecution what we should say: "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you."867867 S. Matt. x. 20. Again He says according to St. Luke: "Be not anxious how ye shall answer or speak, for the Holy Spirit of God shall teach you in that hour what ye ought to say."868868 S. Luke xii. 11, 12. So, although many are called spirits, as it is said: "Who maketh His Angels spirits," yet the Spirit of God is but one.
61. Both apostles and prophets received that one Spirit, as the vessel of election, the Doctor of the Gentiles, says: "For we have all drunk of one Spirit;"869869 1 Cor. xii. 13. Him, as it were, Who cannot be divided, but is poured into souls, and flows into the senses, that He may quench the burning of this world's thirst.
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CAIRO — Egypt urgently needs a massive cash injection and should strike a deal with the International Monetary Fund as soon as possible to reassure investors, said John Kerry, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Speaking after meeting military and civilian leaders in Cairo, Kerry said he was hopeful that Egypt would emerge as a strong democracy following the unrest and uncertainty that has followed the toppling of Hosni Mubarak in February.
But he said the main priority should be to strengthen the economy.
"The most significant challenge right now is the economic challenge," Kerry told reporters at the weekend.
"It is very important for Egypt to work with the IMF and undertake to come to an agreement with the IMF for an immediate infusion of money," he said.
Kerry added that Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who heads the military council temporarily governing Egypt, had indicated that there were "compelling reasons" for outside help given the state of Egyptian foreign reserves.
Egypt negotiated a US$3.2 billion facility with the IMF earlier this year, only to turn it down in the summer. Since then it has sent conflicting messages about whether Egypt still wants the funds, even as the economy flails.
Foreign reserves have plunged from $36 billion at the end of 2010 to about $20 billion at the end of November in the wake of the uprising that unseated Mubarak and the subsequent political turmoil that sent investors and tourists packing.
Kerry said millions of jobs needed to be created in the Arab world's most populous state and a sense of security re-established to attract foreign direct investment.
"Everything could be lost if there is not a focus on the economic reality," he said.


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Schleyer, T. and Mattsson, U. and Riordain, R.N. and Brailo, V. and Glick, M. and Zain, R.B. and Jontell, M. (2011) Advancing oral medicine through informatics and information technology: a proposed framework and strategy. Oral Diseases, 17. pp. 85-94. ISSN 1354-523X, DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-0825.2011.01794.x.
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The implementation of information technology in healthcare is a significant focus for many nations around the world. However, information technology support for clinical care, research and education in oral medicine is currently poorly developed. This situation hampers our ability to transform oral medicine into a 'learning healthcare discipline' in which the divide between clinical practice and research is diminished and, ultimately, eliminated. This paper reviews the needs of and requirements for information technology support of oral medicine and proposes an agenda designed to meet those needs. For oral medicine, this agenda includes analyzing and reviewing current clinical and documentation practices, working toward progressively standardizing clinical data, and helping define requirements for oral medicine systems. IT professionals can contribute by conducting baseline studies about the use of electronic systems, helping develop controlled vocabularies and ontologies, and designing, implementing, and evaluating novel systems centered on the needs of clinicians, researchers and educators. Successfully advancing IT support for oral medicine will require close coordination and collaboration among oral medicine professionals, information technology professionals, system vendors, and funding agencies. If current barriers and obstacles are overcome, practice and research in oral medicine stand ready to derive significant benefits from the application of information technology.
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Additional Information: | Schleyer, T. Mattsson, U. Riordain, R. Ni Brailo, V. Glick, M. Zain, R. B. Jontell, M. 1 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Oral squamous cell carcinoma, OSCC, lichenoid lesions, lichen planus, oral cancer, oral tumours, pemphigus, traumatic eosinophilic granuloma, aphthous ulcers, oral mucosal lesions, betel chewers mucosa, betel quid related lesions, betel quid, areca quid, tobacco quid, oral cancer screening, training and calibration, early detection, oral cancer awareness, biobanking, tissue bank, databank, oral cancer, tissue bank, research credibility, research ethics. |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RK Dentistry > Oral surger |
Divisions: | Faculty of Dentistry > Dept of Oral Pathology & Oral Medicine & Periodontology |
Depositing User: | Prof. Dr. Rosnah Mohd Zain |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2012 04:01 |
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from www.torrentfreak.com – A federal court in Illinois has handed down the largest ever damages award in a BitTorrent case.
In a default judgment defendant Kywan Fisher from Hampton, Virginia is ordered to pay $1,500,000 to adult entertainment company Flava Works for sharing 10 of their movies on BitTorrent. The huge total was reached through penalties of $150,000 per movie, the maximum possible statutory damages under U.S. copyright law. It's expected that the verdict will be used to motivate other BitTorrent defendants to settle their cases.
Since early 2010, hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. have been sued for downloading and sharing copyrighted content on BitTorrent.
Nearly all of these cases end up dismissed or settled, but one involving Kywan Fisher from Hampton, Virginia, has turned into a financial disaster.
In 2011 Fisher and several other defendants were sued by adult entertainment company Flava Works. The case in question differs from the so-called "John Doe" lawsuits as the copyright holder had detailed information on the defendants who had paid accounts on the company's movie portal.
For Fisher the trouble started when instead of just viewing the films for personal entertainment, he allegedly went on to share copies on BitTorrent. These illicit copies were traced directly back to his account through a code embedded in the videos.
"Plaintiff has proprietary software that assigns a unique encrypted code to each member of Plaintiff's paid websites. In this case, every time the Defendant downloaded a copy of a copyrighted video from Plaintiff's website, it inserts an encrypted code that is only assigned to Defendant. In this case, the encrypted code for Defendant is: 'xvyynuxl'," Flava informed the court.
Copying films was expressly forbidden in the user agreement Fisher signed with the video portal, allowing Flava to claim willful copyright infringement for 10 titles.
According to Flava the copies uploaded to BitTorrent by Fisher went on to be downloaded thousands of times.
"Defendant's conduct was willful to the extent that he copied or distributed Flava Works, Inc.' intellectual property at least 10 times and caused the videos to be infringed or downloaded at least 3,449 times."
Because Fisher failed to defend himself Judge John Lee had little choice but to find Fisher guilty.
This week the Judge handed down the largest ever damages award in a BitTorrent case, 10 times the maximum statutory damages for willful infringement, totaling $1,500,000.
"Given the materials submitted by Plaintiff in support of its motion and in light of the absence of any objection by Defendant, Plaintiff's motion for entry of default against defendant 11 is granted. Judgment is entered in favor of the Plaintiff Flava Works, Inc., and against the Defendant Kywan Fisher in the amount of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00)," the judgment reads.
The verdict will be welcomed by Flava and the many other copyright holders involved in BitTorrent lawsuits in the United States. DieTrollDie, a close follower and critic of these cases, points out that it will be widely cited in settlement letters to other defendants, but that the case itself is notably different.
"This was not the normal Copyright Troll case – there was some actual evidence beyond a public IP address. Not a smoking gun by far, but certainly enough to show a preponderance of evidence," DTD writes.
Fisher has a few options to respond according to attorney Blair Chintella.
"The most common way is the "collaterally" attack the judgment by arguing that there was some jurisdictional defect in the lawsuit. For example, that service of process was improper or that the Court lacked personal jurisdiction," Chintella told TorrentFreak.
While the guilty verdict is no surprise considering the failure of Fisher to appear before court, the $150,000 in damages per movie, which translates to $435 per alleged download, definitely raises eyebrows.


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This is the ninth film in Marvel's series of interconnected superhero flicks, and there's no sign of slowing down. Indeed, this is possibly the studio's strongest outing yet – it's certainly the best we've seen of Captain America.
It's all about the timing. Captain America was dull in the 1940s – an all-round do-gooder, an unabashed symbol of wartime propaganda. But put him on ice until the 21st century and he becomes a badass outcast.
That's when things get interesting. With his friends long dead and his values outdated, the all-American poster-boy struggles for relevance. That's something Marvel has only briefly touched upon so far, usually in the form of a tech-based gag.
As government agency SHIELD becomes more controlling, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) finds himself unwilling to toe the line. The perfect soldier begins questioning orders, and things get complicated when the agency comes under attack.
The Winter Soldier is unusually sensible for a Marvel flick. Gone are the bright colours of The Avengers. The vibe is primarily that of a 1970s political conspiracy thriller, complete with All the President's Men star Robert Redford in a key role. The decision to dig at shadowy government practices is a bold move, and allows the film to strike a more serious, realistic tone.
Not Christopher Nolan's kind of serious and 'realistic', of course. Marvel has steered clear of the kind of tedious mopery that threatened to drown The Dark Knight Rises. Despite its more mature ambitions, The Winter Soldier never forgets its roots in a comic book about a man with a killer frisbee.
Heavier moments are nicely balanced with nicely timed, well-scripted humour. Outlandish elements are celebrated, not excused or glossed over. There's something hilariously ironic about a man who hits people with a shield – and he does that a lot.
The action is very skilfully handled. Set pieces tend to be short and savage, never labouring the point. You won't get Michael Bay's extended car-flipping sessions. Violence is up close and direct like a wrench to the face.
It's coherent and enjoyable to watch if you do it in 2D – 3D messes with the clarity of more anarchic scenes. Fireworks are rare but loud, and quite astonishing on more dynamic systems.
Most importantly, there's room for characters to develop. The Cap's continuous struggle to understand modern society is an endless source of entertainment. Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow is finally allowed to do more than hit people, and Anthony Mackie's amiable Falcon (think backpack with Buzz Lightyear wings) is a welcome addition.
There will come a point when these superhero films reach critical mass, when all of these characters and overlapping storylines become too much for Marvel to handle. But for now we're in safe, capable hands.
The Winter Soldier one of the most refreshingly competent action films we've seen in a long time.
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Lincoln Electric, Cleveland, OH, has released its latest product catalog highlighting its line of equipment, including welding power supplies, wire feeders, robotic solutions, fume-extraction systems and consumables. The catalog is color-coded by product category so that users can quickly find the equipment to meet their needs.
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ST. SIMONS ISLAND — A land trust has purchased Cannon's Point, a 608-acre site on the north end of St. Simons Island that contains evidence of settlements dating back 4,500 years and remains of a pre-Civil War plantation.
The St. Simons Land Trust made the purchase after raising $25 million over the past two years, The Brunswick News reported (http://bit.ly/Swh7Gz ).
The acquisition from Wells Fargo Bank was announced Monday.
The deal quadruples the amount of protected land on the island managed by the trust, said Ben Slade, executive director of the St. Simons Land Trust.
Slade said he expects Cannon's Point to be opened to the public sometime in 2013.
The trust intends to preserve the Cannon's Point land off Lawrence Road through a conservation easement from The Nature Conservancy and manage it as a publicly accessible maritime forest and historic site.
Possible uses include trails for hiking and biking and areas for primitive camping.
"Now the task of funding to prepare to put people on Cannon's Point begins," said Susan Shipman, chair of the land trust board.
"If the land trust is able to raise an additional $500,000 in 2013, this quasi-wilderness preserve will offer passive recreation and educational programs for residents and visitors," she said.
To reduce the likelihood that a planned 2-mile hiking trail will disturb buried artifacts, the land trust has already had researchers digging 30-inch-deep holes along the route and sifting the soil for potential artifacts.
Adding to the importance of the land are several sites of historical significance, Shipman said.
Shell middens, or ancient domestic trash depositories, date to 2500 BC, and the foundation remains of a large plantation home and possible slave cabin built for owner John Couper in 1804 will be preserved.
Cannon's Point is named for early European settler Daniel Cannon.